Tag: Technology & Electronics
Everything Amazon announced at its 2023 Devices and Services event
Amazon’s fall hardware event was chock full of updates. Perhaps unsurprisingly, given the generative AI boom from the last year, the company began transforming Alexa into a much more versatile and conversational personal chatbot. But it also had plenty of new hardware to introduce, with new models of the Echo…
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Amazon Echo Frames (3rd-gen) hands-on: Refined look, better sound, faster Alexa
Amazon’s smart glasses have yet to impress us, but the company made big changes for its third-gen Echo Frames that could go along way in changing our minds. First, the company has upgraded the design, slimming down the area around your temples that houses all of the components. Amazon has…
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Amazon’s new Echo Frames promise longer battery life and better audio
Amazon’s smart glasses are getting their first significant update in more than two years, the company announced during its annual fall event on Wednesday. The latest version of the Echo Frames will ship with a longer battery life and redesigned audio experience, along with several new colors and styles. The…
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Amazon’s Echo Show 8 offers spatial audio and a dynamic, proximity-based UI
Amazon debuted an updated Echo Show 8 during its annual fall event on Wednesday, highlighting the device’s new display, camera, microphones and spatial-audio capabilities. Generative AI helps the Echo Show 8 respond dynamically to the user’s position in the physical world, offering different displays depending on how far away someone…
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Twelve South’s HiRise Pro is a slick height-adjustable laptop stand
I’ve been experimenting with my work-from-home setup for a few months now, and I still haven’t quite got it to where I want it. I’ve dabbled in standing desks, mid-century bureaus (not even kidding) and, gasp, chairs that actually support my back, but sometimes it’s the small things that make…
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The Morning After: Huge Xbox leak reveals an all-digital Series X and a lot more
This summer’s Federal Trade Commission−Microsoft trial revealed all kinds of intriguing details about how the tech company’s gaming arm saw its rivals and the future of gaming. But now, a court document leak has spilled the beans on new consoles, a new controller and even a list of new game…
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